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Influence of a faculty development workshop on clinical evaluation practices in a nurse anesthesia program
(2016-05)
Faculty development has a number of benefits in academiaacademia. Specifically, in nurse anesthesia
education, doctoral programs are required to provide faculty development for their clinical
instructors. In order to ...
Reading, Writing, and Technology: Preliminary Results from a Bilingual Reading and Computer Literacy Program in Lincoln, Neb.
(Cambio Center, 2010)
and high school incompletion begin in the preschool and elementary school years (Balfanz, et al, 2007; Lehr, et al, 2004). Some common antecedents to poor academic performance in high school and high school incompletion can be traced back to elementary...
Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
(Cambio Center, 2012)
In-depth interviews with rural low-income Mexican immigrant mothers explored "How, if at all, do the housing and health issues of rural Latino immigrant families vary based on level of transnationalism?" Transnationalism ...
Exploring individual, family, and community factors predicting business success in Hispanic and Latino experiences
(Cambio Center, 2012)
This research examines what selected individual, family, and community factors best predict Hispanic/Latino male and female entrepreneurs? engagement in entrepreneurial activities and business success. In this study, ...
Riparian forests with and without grass filters as buffers of concentrated flow from crop fields
(2009)
A vegetation inventory within naturally occurring forested riparian buffers (natural forest buffers) and a survey comparing buffering of concentrated flow paths (CFPs) by natural forest buffers with and without planted ...
Health Literacy Provider Training and Patient Satisfaction
(2017)
Ninety million Americans lack the health literacy skills required to adequately manage their
health while healthcare professionals lack the formal training to appropriately address the needs
of low health literate ...
Agroforestry and grass buffer influences on water infiltration for a grazed pasture system
(2009)
Agroforestry and grass buffers are often adopted as an alternative resource management system in agriculture for environmental and economic benefits. The objective of the study was to compare agroforestry (AgB) and grass ...
Promoting tree-based intercropping systems in the political arena : a cognitive analysis of public policies in agriculture, natural resources and rural development in Quebec
(2013)
In Quebec, tree-based intercropping (TBI) systems are considered as potential contributors to climate change adaptation as well as ecological goods and services providers. TBI systems are consequently promoted by stakeholders ...
Thirty million agroforesters : Russia's family gardens
(2009)
Today, over 30 million Russian households engage in food gardening and collectively produce over half of Russia's agricultural output, using less than 6 [percent] of agricultural land in the country. The small size of plots ...
Comparison of bare root and RPM seedling production technologies : implications for agroforestry
(2011)
'Root Production Method' (RPM) technology significantly increases the development of root systems in containerized seedlings. As an alternative to bare root seedlings, RPM seedlings have been promoted as a method to increase ...
Recreational multifunctionality and its implications for agroforestry
(2009)
Multifunctionality occurs when farms provide different services along with food production including recreation and agroforestry. Multifunctional farms simultaneously offer several services suggesting synergies among them ...
Oncology Patient Education by a Nurse Practitioner and Stress Reduction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1.7 million new cancer cases were
diagnosed in 2018. With a new diagnosis of cancer, patient education can be used to decrease
anxiety about the diagnosis and ...
APEX simulation : environmental benefits of agroforestry buffers on corn-soybean watersheds
(2013)
The Agricultural Policy Environmental Extender (APEX) model has the ability to simulate the effects of vegetative filter strips on runoff and pollutant loadings from agricultural watersheds. The objectives of this study ...
Improving Outcomes for Psychiatric Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: An Evidence Based Quality Initiative
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Patients who are prescribed second generation antipsychotic medications are vulnerable and at an
increased risk for developing metabolic syndrome (MetS). Metabolic syndrome is the
development of obesity, hyperlipidemia, ...
The Impact of Social Networks on Well-Being: Evidence from Latino
(Cambio Center, 2011)
A series of studies has questioned the stylized fact that most Latino immigrants favor settling in major cities. The recent wave of immigration into the rural areas has been raising concerns about resource distribution and ...
An Empowerment Program to Reduce Parental Distress and Neonatal Length of Stay
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Over 400,000 preterm infants are born each year and taken to the neonatal intensive care unit
which presents a caustic and intimidating environment for parents who struggle to adapt to the
parenting role in a roller ...
Emission of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide from riparian forest buffers, warm-season and cool-season grass filters and crop fields
(2009)
Denitrification is recognized as the major mechanism for reducing nitrate in riparian buffers and thus diminishing non-point source pollution (NPS) of surface water bodies subject to high nitrogen loads. However, increasing ...
Bilingual Education
(Cambio Center, 2008)
Love laws : trauma and transgression in Morrison and Roy
(2022)
One of the prizes for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Zoe Korte.
Using the Porter Model to analyze the U.S. elderberry industry
(2011)
Elderberry, a perennial shrub native to North America with a variety of uses and benefits, is neither well known nor widely utilized as a specialty crop in the U.S. Up-to-date information is lacking with regard to the ...